I wonder if we'll ever stop believing the totally false "FAKE" story?
First off, Eric The Red and his son, Leif, and about 30,000 Vikings lived in Greenland a freaking thousand years before Columbus 'sailed the Ocean Blue. "
Eric and other sailed and explored up and down the coasts, had 'winter harbors' in places like Cape Cod - explored the Hudson for a place but after a bitter winter there, gave that up. ... The Eastern seaboard was explored ...
Then a HUNDRED years before 1492, Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, the second most powerful man in Scotland, next to the King - and wealthier than the king, sailed his ships with about 750 Knights Templar and families to Nova Scotia - where he ALREADY owned land - to escape the encroaching attacks from England, to get the ancient treasures and themselves out of reach. They also knew about Greenland and the earlier Viking's establishment.
Nova Scotia celebrates The Sinclair landing.
"Monument to the alleged landing site of the Sinclair Expedition, Guysborough, Nova Scotia"
Columbus married into a famous map-maker family. He had the map that showed the eastern seaboards of N. and S. America. His theory, the he sold to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand was that he could find a safer and shorter route to India and the riches of the spice trade by sailing BETWEEN the two continents. He never set out to discover, nor claimed to, 'discover' a new land. However, there were no known explorations or maps showing the CENTRAL America was in the way.
He hit the Islands and at first,thought he had reached the back end of India-and named the natives"Indios" (Indians).
He did realize his mistake, but by then had discovered the natives and gold and gold and silver - and the genocide began...killing millions and wiping out Taino Tribe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51LPfrjsqQ&index=3&list=PLWtYzeXtcs1hLrZLL1yTlDFy_hV2gWDDT
Following is 3rd voyage, he was, on orders of the Queen, hauled back to Spain in chains...not for what he did, but because he was planning on setting himself as the ruler of the Islands.
"Columbus Day" was not a holiday for hundreds of years after. And the FAKE NEWS still reigns. Rather like most of our school kids are still taught - and depictions continue to show. still 400 years later - that the Pilgrims dressed in black and white. FAKE NEWS.
The scary part is that we are just as gullible today - even some Freepers - in believing FAKE NEWS.
Does no one ever research anything?
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